Hi Travis
OK, yes, I did know about the sudo command. But the developer of an app
requires SSH root access to one of our systems. That’s why I requested root
access.
On one of our machines I can actually log in as root, but that machine is where
this server is running and I need to do some
rm filename or rm -r folder name if that is what you are looking for.
It helps to cd to the dir wherein your stuff is.
On Sep 22, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote:
Hi Travis
OK, yes, I did know about the sudo command. But the developer of an app
requires SSH
Rm will happily remove files for you, though it should be used
sparingly, since a bad rm command could wipe your entire hd, though it
would take some serious coincidence to make it happen by accident. mv
will move files, cp will copy them, and (on osx at least) pushd and
popd will save
You can get root access by using the sudo command. Normally, you'd
simply run a single command using sudo and it would run as root,
however, a command like
sudo /bin/bash
will get you a root shell, and you need only use your own password to
make it happen (assuming you're an admin on the
You can even set up a root account. I did not yet but a friend of mine did on
their computer. they set up a root account so they do not have to use sudo or
sometimes just su
Take care.
On Sep 21, 2014, at 10:59 PM, Travis Siegel tsie...@softcon.com wrote:
You can get root access by using
Hi all
As part of the fix process for our mail system, I need to log into our machine
as “root” I always thought that once at the log-in screen, you could simply use
“Root” as the user ID, and “root” as the password. Apparently, this isn’t the
case any longer; although our old Snow Leopard
